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From: buck@granite.cr.bull.com (Kenneth J. Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Re: Gateway 2000
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.143340.23784@granite.cr.bull.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 14:33:40 GMT
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In article <1990Oct12.174837.9606@cbnewsi.att.com> Brian.C.Kohn@ATT.COM
   (bicker@hoqax.ATT.COM) writes:
>I haven't actually gotten my 386sx from them yet, but they seem to be
>far more concerned about missing a 3 week delivery date than other
>vendors appear to be.

This isn't meant to cast any stones at Gateway 2000 or anybody else, but I
read recently (I forget where) that mail order companies were _required_ to
notify you if an order were to be delayed from the promised date by some number
of days or weeks (something like 'greater than 3 weeks' or something).
I believe this was some federal postal regulation or something.  Of course,
that doesn't mean that sleazy companies would comply...